Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine Cover:Paperback This joyful family story follows

This joyful family story follows a little girl from dawn to dusk as she draws rangolis to welcome guests

Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house

But they felt uneasy over their good fortune

and spiritual worlds

empowering point of view: she is a reflection of the powerful women that have come before her

Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine Cover:Paperback This joyful family story followsBlackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book. In these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a